5 warm up sets… apparently that’s all it takes to warm up for a new clean & jerk world record. Here is 29 year old Sohrab Moradi (94kg) in the warm up area at worlds 2017. 125kg 2+1 125kg 2+1 175kg 2+1 190kg 210kg 220kg first attempt 233kg second attempt, world record

Here is Sohrab Moradi’s heavy training session at the 2017 Worlds. He worked up to a 180kg Snatch and 220kg Clean & Jerk (in competition his openers were 176/220) This was during Lasha’s Heavy Training Session. You can see him in the background a couple of times.

Meanwhile in Iran … After we heard about the comeback of Saeid Alihosseini the Iranian team had a competition at the end of their 3 week training camp, where some big boy weights were thrown around. Commenter PJ writes: Not a national championship, just a competition for the weightlifters inside the national camp to determine […]